Feole v. State

OPINION

FACTS

Appellant Dennis Arthur Feole shared a household with Martha Tiscareno. Tiscareno told Feole that she might report Feole’s son Dominic’s use of marijuana to the police. Feole responded by telling Tiscareno that if she “snitched,” her body would be found in the desert. Tiscareno reported Dominic to the *630police, then moved out of the house. When Tiscareno next saw Feole, Feole made shoveling motions saying, “Remember what I told you.”

Feole was charged by complaint with preventing or dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, and with intimidating a witness to influence testimony.…